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A calendar of events of interest to native Americans to be held in the U.S. from November 2008 to May 2009 is presented including a workshop on photograph preservation in Norman, Oklahoma, the 55th Annual Chicago Pow Wow in Chicago, Illinois and the Christmas Bazaar in Arizona.

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Nineteenth-century painters had fastened onto Indian models as a means of constructing the classical past of the U.S. The camera, despite its direct transfer of reality, would also play a role in the romantic conceit. It is a surprise to learn that the first instance of an Indian being...